Directors Quotes

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.

On Darjeeling, I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On Moonrise Kingdom, I showed up for one day.

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.

It's pretty damning. That's Hillary Clinton juxtaposed against the FBI Director Comey yesterday, clearly illustrating she lied.

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

You have different people who come into your life and they affect you in a way and leave an impact on you. Whether it's projects or friends or directors, it's just an opportunity that people give me.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.

I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the authenticity of their films.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of The Saint. He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.

It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.

A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.

I love acting and I hope I'm fortunate enough to get good, interesting roles and I hope directors and producers will keep giving me the opportunity to act as I really love doing this.

I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.